Faith, Family and Work - A Discussion with Josh Howard
Josh Howard
Founder of Bluefin Capital Advisors, a Certified Exit Planning and M&A Adviser, and Serial Entrepreneur
Juntos Online Learning Community
June 16, 2026
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This is a summary of the Juntos Online Learning Community Webinar on the topic of "Faith, Family, and Work" featuring Josh Howard on June 16, 2026.
As a preview, Josh will explore the relationship between faith, family, and business, challenging business leaders and decision makers to look beyond traditional measures of success — revenue, growth, achievement. Drawing from his own journey, he'll share why lasting significance doesn't come from perfectly balancing these areas, but from keeping them in proper and intentional alignment.
Josh will provide a simple framework design ed to help achieve and maintain alignment, lead with purpose, and ultimately build a businesses that supports — not competes with — the things that matter to us the most.
And at the end of your life, what do you hope people will say about you — not as a businessman or businesswoman, but as a husband/wife, father/mother, friend, and follower of Christ?
Richard Talbot opened the session by welcoming participants to the third installment of the Juntos Online Learning Community webinar series. He briefly introduced the organization — a faith-based community for entrepreneurs, business owners, and community leaders in Belize built around the conviction that business can serve as a platform for ministry, and that no one should have to navigate that calling alone. Juntos, he noted, means "together" in Spanish, and that word captures the spirit of what the community is trying to build.
Richard welcomed the guest for this session, Josh Howard, founder of Bluefin Capital Advisors, a Certified Exit Planning and M&A Adviser, and Serial Entrepreneur who has founded more than a dozen businesses and trained upward of 3,000 business leaders. Josh joined the Juntos advisory team last year and recently published The Climb to Significance, which shaped much of the conversation.
Josh traced the book's origins to two events that arrived in close succession: completing a long-delayed climb to Machu Picchu — twelve years in the planning — and losing his father three days after returning home. His father had spent forty years as a water well contractor, modeling hard work and quiet faith, and his passing prompted Josh to think seriously about legacy, purpose, and the difference between achieving goals and living a meaningful life.
That distinction — success versus significance — anchored the discussion. Josh described a "low hum" of unfulfillment that many high-achieving people experience even after reaching their goals, and argued that it stems from confusing personal achievement with lasting purpose. Success, in his framing, is measured by what you accumulate; significance is measured by what you give and how you influence others. He encouraged participants to align their faith, family, and business around that longer view.
The Machu Picchu experience surfaced another theme: the cost of hesitation. Josh was direct on this point — waiting for the perfect moment is a losing strategy. The conversations people know they need to have, the decisions they know they need to make, don't get easier with delay. He urged participants to stop playing the "what-if" game and act.
On the question of stewardship, Josh drew on the Parable of the Talents to make the case that Christian business owners are stewards, not owners, of what they've been given. The business itself is a tool — a platform for ministry and stewardship — not an end in itself. He paired that with a principle from Ecclesiastes: don't let what you cannot control destroy what you can enjoy. Much of the stress and anxiety business owners carry, he suggested, comes from trying to control things that are simply outside their reach — markets, supply chains, external circumstances. Releasing those and focusing on what is actually controllable makes for healthier leadership and healthier families.
He extended that logic to the employee relationship as well, drawing a distinction between being responsible to employees versus responsible for them. A leader's job is to steward well and give their best; the outcomes beyond that belong to God.
Abner Valladares raised the challenge of carrying the weight of business and family simultaneously, which prompted Josh to introduce the concept of the Rope Team — three figures every leader needs: a guide with significantly more experience, a companion who walks alongside as a peer, and a challenger who holds the leader accountable to their purpose. Participant John Black added that writing goals and priorities down — rather than trying to manage them mentally — had been essential to his own progress.
Josh tied the practical side together with a simple discipline: if a priority doesn't appear on your calendar, it probably won't happen. He schedules intentional blocks for faith, mentoring, family, and even thinking time, treating them as non-negotiable.
Josh also offered to provide free digital PDF copies of The Climb to Significance to participants, acknowledging the difficulty of shipping physical books to Belize. The book — along with three companion guides and a 90-day journal — is also available on Amazon and Kindle. To request your copy, please contact Josh directly at: jhoward@bluefin-global.com
Josh, who is the normal host of the Juntos Online Learning Community, closed by announcing that the July webinar will feature Tom Goodert, a Tampa-based leadership coach with a background in pastoral ministry and business, who will also be joining us in Belize this fall.
Thanks for joining us today. If you'd like more information about Juntos Belize, please visit our website: juntosbelize.org.
